If underemployed workers counted …
I’ve written a little bit about the importance of tracking underemployment trends, and this is particularly important when those trends diverge from the headline unemployment rate. This graph (12 month…
May 2014
Enhanced credit for pre-sentence custody
R. v. Houlder, 2014 ONCA 372: The sentencing judge had this court’s decision in R. v. Summers, 2013 ONCA 147 and concluded that there was an insufficient basis in the…
Tim Hudak Is Mike Harris Squared
BARRIE — Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak says a Tory government would cut 100,000 jobs from the Ontario public sector. He specifically mentioned firing teachers, so look out for another…
Damien Gillis talks fracking, LNG on J-Fest Panel tonight
Documentary filmmaker and Common Sense Canadian Publisher Damien Gillis Listen to Fractured Land filmmaker and Common Sense Canadian Publisher Damien Gillis talk about the costs and conflicted benefits of natural…
The lowdown on the PC plan for the public sector
Below are excerpts from the Progressive Conservative policy paper, “A New Deal for the Public Sector”. It contains some very radical ideas that go far beyond even what former PC…
Cat drawings up at Pinterest
Just put up a number of cat drawings at Pinterest. Finally coming down to the last days of this head cold. It’s been a battle between me and the cats…
The Protest and Popular Assembly (Plenum) Movement in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Get up to speed with this interview with Politics, Re-Spun contributor Jasmin Mujanovic on the protest and popular assembly (plenum) movement in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Bosnia’s protest movement is already receiving less…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, May 9, 2014
Your news links for today: Transparent Lives – Surveillance in Canada Government snooping on social media may breach Privacy Act – CBC News Ottawa launches data collection review – Globe…
Corky Evans: How YOU can help save the ALR in 5 min
Former BC Environment Minister Corky Evans (Photo: RichardHughes.ca) An Open Letter to Almost Everybody: My name is Corky Evans. I garden and farm in the Kootenays of B.C. Many years…
What Is This? The 1950s???
I have no idea who the parties are behind Airdrie’s Footprints For Learning Academy, but someone needs to give them a shake and educate them about a few things regarding…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Robert Reich calls out four fundamental lies used to push corporatist policies. But perhaps more interesting is the truth which no amount of…
May 9: Mike’s Bike Shop facelift nearly complete
As soon as I saw that as the big story (half page with photo) on the front page, I knew there wasn’t going to be much to say about today’s…
Austerity Bites, Employment Rate Falls Again
Today’s labour force numbers are ugly, there’s no other word for it. Employment down 29,000 jobs. Paid employment (ie. not counting self-employment) down 46,000 jobs. The only reason the unemployment…
Political Eh-conomy Radio: CLC Convention 2014
This week’s convention of the Canadian Labour Congress was more eventful than it has been in some time. There was a change of leadership and an energy palpable even from…
Convention 2014: Take our Pharmacare quiz and win!
Every Commission that has looked into health care delivery in Canada has recommended bringing prescription drugs under the Medicare umbrella. As modern health care has evolved, drug therapies have become…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, May 9, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, May 9, 2014: My post today at SlawTips: The WalMartization of Law Begins in Ontario Harper’s timing…
Sleeping Through The Drama
Thomas Picketty’s new book, Capital In The 21st Century, is generating a flurry of interest south of the border. Paul Krugman has praised the book’s scholarship and its conclusion that…
POLL: Ontario Election – Who Has the Best Bus?
Will Kathleen Wynne’s steady hands stay at 10 and 2? How many of Tim Hudak’s million jobs are for designing bus wrap slogans? What’s the insurance rate for Andrea Horwath’s…
Your morning Ontario election news
This is all you need to know. Oh, and Hudak is doing a lot better after his two initial flubs. Prediction for next few days: Harper PMO are going to…